{"product_id":"love-and-other-unfortunate-things-dudley-wordsworth-9798301792939","title":"LOVE and Other Unfortunate Things","description":"Love is a chemical reaction in the human brain, a firing of neurons to indicate another member of the species might provide viable offspring. It's a biological reflex, like hunger or gassiness or getting whacked in the knee by a tiny hammer, neurological sorcery designed by evolution to perpetuate a species so mired in abstraction it lost sight of reality. Love is drunkenness, really, a self-inflicted intoxication that leads to some truly goofy decisions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut then so do werewolves, bad poetry, black holes and antimatter. Life's full of unfortunateness, it seems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo, brought to you by Dudley Wordsworth - famously NOT the author of any New York Times Bestsellers - are ten stories of love and laughs, of humor and horror, of sci-fi and just-fi, of LOVE... and Other Unfortunate Things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContains the Short Stories: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Things We're All Too Young to Know\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe embodiment of Good marches on the final battlefield of Armageddon to face the embodiment of Evil, only to discover... they used to date! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Meat-Cute\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young vegan goes to a dinner date at her new boyfriend's house, only to learn a shocking secret that puts their whole relationship in jeopardy. Content Warning: This one gets weird. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Butterflies\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrapped in a world on monsters, a man must navigate through storms and time to stop a butterfly from flapping its wings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"An Unfortunate Attempt at Poetry\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poem about werewolves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"King Rex\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a fairytale land of wizards and princesses and plagues and death, King Rex reigns with an iron fist; and only one thing can threaten him: his daughter's desire to wed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"How Daddy Slew the Gorloch\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBilly's dad is the most powerful dad in all of Dad-dom. So why is he struggling so much against something called a 'Gorloch?' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"An Unfortunater Attempt at Poetry\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poem NOT about werewolves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Matter of Perspective\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA day in the life of four college students with wildly different outlooks on everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Unfortunest Attempt at Poetry\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes, you just gotta vent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"How to Destroy the Universe in Seven Business Days or Less\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFed up with his noisy neighbors, a man reaches the only sane solution possible: destroy the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dudley Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798301792939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Dudley Wordsworth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49166723547391,"sku":"9798301792939","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-other-unfortunate-things-dudley-wordsworth-9798301792939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}